Another Brilliant Observation from the "Sophocles Of The Diamond", who gave this bit of brilliance or flatulence, when John Olerud homered off Yankees Pitching, on Saturday, 9/10/05, on FOX Saturday Baseball:

I knew someone would say this. I just meant that casual viwere is gonna hear McCarver say he's the greatest, then on the next pitch, the worst thing that can happen to a catcher happened to that guy. In fact, he made a nice play not letting him get by.

I also probably threw you off by calling McCarver a jackass. I was just saying that in general, heh heh.

But also note: calling pitches is part of the defensive game, and technically he could've called one pitche and looked for another, hence it would be a bad defensive play, but probably not, and that one play wouldn't take away a career worth of defense. I'm just sayin'. It's the one play that makes you look like a complete fool, and it happened immediately after he was showered with praise, hence, funny. Kind of.